Trivia / Shanghai Noon

• Actor Allusion:
  • Roy is off to fight a sissy lord.
  • Chon Wang's American name is John Wayne.
  • "You could do your own stunts!"
  • Chon blowing bubbles at the bordello is in homage to Drunken Master.
• Deleted Scene: Noon has several deleted scenes.
  • After Roy's holdup, Chon tries to stop the train before hitting a dead end. Filmed in homage to Buster Keaton's The General, it got cut because it ultimately didn't advance the plot. The shot of the train's bell almost landing on top of Chon was meant to foreshadow Lo Fong's death.
  • Roy being buried by Wallace, who takes Roy's gang, which was meant to provide the impetus to the Bait-and-Switch Crashing Dreams scene, where we think he'd gotten out and reached the bordello, but is still buried with vultures picking at his head.
  • Roy walking in on Falling Leaves, Chon's American Indian wife, while she's bathing in a stream.
  • A whole sequence where Chon's fellow Chinese guards are discovered by a conman named Bulldog Drummond, played by Curtis Armstrong, who tries to showcase them to audiences. When they realize what's happening, he gets beaten and they take his wagon, which they used to travel to the church. Drummond is subsequently mugged by Wallace and the gang, who reveals where the guards are going, which explains how they show up there in the end.
  • Chon and Roy handing out the gold to all the Chinese train workers, and the fate of the Chinese guards: deciding to stay to start the first Chinese restaurant in America. Contained a Call-Back/Book End to the "Take your hand off me ..." gag when Chon realizes Roy snuck a few pieces for himself.
• Development Hell: The third movie, Shanghai Dawn, was confirmed in pre-production in the early '00s but fell out of the news soon after. Jackie Chan still says 'It's in the talks', however. There was a burst of activity in in 2016, but nothing came of it.
• Dueling Movies:
  • The film's premise is largely recycled from Rush Hour.
  • Sammo Hung once heard Jackie Chan discuss the 'film he'd want to make someday' (A western/kung fu movie), and (thinking it was just Jackie's daydream, and not an actual plan) went ahead and made Once Upon A Time In China And America. They make an interesting contrast.
• Orphaned Reference: Originally, there was a whole sequence where Chon Wang's fellow Chinese guards are discovered by a conman named Bulldog Drummond, played by Curtis Armstrong, who tries to showcase them to audiences. When they realize what's happening, he gets beaten and they take his wagon, which is what they used to travel to the church. Drummond is subsequently mugged by Wallace and the gang, who reveals where the guards are going, which explains how they show up there in the end.
• Star-Making Role: This was Owen Wilson's first lead role in a major film after string of indie films and supporting roles.

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